Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Since it was first awarded to Arthur Rose Eldred on August 21, 1912, Eagle Scout has been earned by more than two million young men.[3] The list below includes notable recipients.
As of 2012, requirements include earning at least 21 merit badges and demonstrating Scout Spirit, leadership, and service. The requirements include an Eagle Scout Service Project where the Scout must further demonstrate service and leadership.[4] Eagle Scouts are recognized with a medal and badge that visibly recognizes the accomplishments of the Scout. Eagle Palms are a further recognition, awarded for completing additional tenure, leadership, and merit badge requirements.
The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award (DESA) is bestowed to Eagle Scouts for nationally renowned distinguished service in their profession and to the community for a period of at least 25 years after earning the Eagle Scout rank.[5] Since its introduction in 1969 by the National Eagle Scout Association, the DESA has been awarded to just under 2000 Eagle Scouts.Template:DESA
The NESAOutstanding Eagle Scout Award (NOESA) is bestowed to Eagle Scouts who have distinguished themselves at a local-to-regional level or who have not yet met the 25 year tenure requirement to be considered for a DESA. This award was introduced in 2011.[6]
Representative (1948–1955) from Texas; senator from Texas (1971–1993); nominee for Vice President of the United States (1988); chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; Secretary of the Treasury (1993–1994)
Adventure guide, author, photographer, speaker and trail designer; wrote the 10th, 11th and 12th editions of the Boy Scout Handbook and the 4th edition of the Fieldbook
Air Force colonel; astronaut who participated in four flights of the Space Shuttle-STS-8, STS-39, STS-53, and STS-61-A; first African American in space; designated as the emissary to return the Challenger flag to a Boy Scout troop
Lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps during World War II who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" during the Battle of Kwajalein
First Eagle Scout; agricultural official and executive; Navy veteran of World War I; received BSA's Bronze Honor Medal for lifesaving; first of three generations of Eagle Scouts
Aviator and adventurer known for his five world record non-stop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo airplane pilot; president of the National Eagle Scout Association; Silver Buffalo Award recipient
Retired professional baseball executive; general manager of four Major League Baseball teams with three World Series championships; inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.
Danish Knight-Scout considered to be the father of American Boy Scouting and the Scoutmaster to the World due to his prolific writings and teachings in the areas of troop and patrol structure, training, and the development of the original American adaptation of the Wood Badge program
Co-director of the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; astronaut who flew on shuttle missions STS-51-D, STS-35, STS-46, STS-61 and STS-75
Jurist and public official; Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1994–2000); Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (2000–2006)
CEO of Seattle Mariners baseball team; chairman of Nintendo of America; in 1956 he posed as one of the Boy Scouts for The Scoutmaster painting by Norman Rockwell
| class="note" | Offensive left guard for Los Angeles Rams and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
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| class="sortable fn" | Mark Madsen
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1992 c.
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| class="note" | NBA basketball player with Minnesota Timberwolves; coach of youth basketball camp
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| class="sortable fn" | Ray Malavasi †
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1944
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| class="note" | Head coach of NFL's Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Rams
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| class="sortable fn" | Ernest Mario
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1954
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| class="note" | PhD; pharmaceutical industry executive; trustee of Duke University (1989–2007); recipient of the Remington Honor Medal in 2007
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| class="sortable fn" | J. W. Marriott, Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1947
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| class="note" | Chairman and CEO of Marriott International
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| class="sortable fn" | Tom Matte
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1955 c.
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| class="note" | Pro Bowl and Super Bowlrunning back for the Baltimore Colts
| style="text-align:center;" | [138]
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| class="sortable fn" | Robert J. Mazzuca
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1964
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| class="note" | Professional Scouter and Chief Scout Executive (2007–)
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| class="sortable fn" | William Cameron McCool †
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1977 c.
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| class="note" | Pilot of the Columbia shuttle mission STS-107
| style="text-align:center;" | [14][113]
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| class="sortable fn" | Michael J. McCulley
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1959 c.
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| class="note" | Chief executive officer of United Space Alliance; astronaut who flew on shuttle mission STS-104
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| class="sortable fn" | Charles T. McDowell †
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1937 c.
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| class="note" | Army colonel; combat paratrooper in World War II; Soviet Union scholar and professor of Russian language
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| class="sortable fn" | Charles McGee
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1940
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| class="note" | Tuskegee Airman and a career officer in the Air Force for 30 years; holds an Air Force record of 409 fighter combat missions flown in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam
| style="text-align:center;" | [142]
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| class="sortable fn" | Albert H. McGeehan
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1960 c.
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| class="note" | Mayor of Holland, Michigan (1993–)
| style="text-align:center;" | [143]
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| class="sortable fn" | Rob McKenna
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1979
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| class="note" | Venture philanthropist, founder of the McLaughlin Prize for Research in Ethics in Accounting and Taxation, head of the order of the Knights of St. John
| style="text-align:center;" | [145]
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| class="sortable fn" | Sid McMath †
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1928 c.
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| class="note" | Decorated Marine Corps combat veteran of World War II, retired as major general; renowned attorney and progressive reform Governor of Arkansas (1949–1953)
| style="text-align:center;" | [146]
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| class="sortable fn" | Robert McNamara †
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1932 c.
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| class="note" | Business executive; Secretary of Defense (1961–1968); President of the World Bank (1968–1981)
| style="text-align:center;" | [147]
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| class="sortable fn" | Michael R. McNulty
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1963 c.
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| class="note" | Representative from New York (1989–2009)
| style="text-align:center;" | [148]
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| class="sortable fn" | Roy W. Menninger
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1941
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| class="note" | Physician and former leader of the Menninger Foundation, older brother of Walter
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| class="sortable fn" | W. Walter Menninger
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1951
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| class="note" | Physician and former leader of the Menninger Foundation, younger brother of Roy
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| class="sortable fn" | Jeff Merkley
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1972 c.
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| class="note" | United States Senator from Oregon (2009–present)
| style="text-align:center;" | [7]
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| class="sortable fn" | Charles D. Metcalf
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1949
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| class="note" | Air Force major general; director, National Museum of the United States Air Force (1996–)
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| class="sortable fn" | George Meyer
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1973 c.
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| class="note" | Writer and producer of The Simpsons
| style="text-align:center;" | [150]
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| class="sortable fn" | Edward D. Miller Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1959
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| class="note" | Dentist; one of the founders of Venturing; one of the authors of Wood Badge in the 21st century and the 2003 Field Book
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| class="sortable fn" | Tony Miller
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1964 c.
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| class="note" | Lawyer; Secretary of State of California (1994–1995)
| style="text-align:center;" | [151]
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| class="sortable fn" | Scott Mitchell
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1984 c.
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| class="note" | Political and community leader in California
| style="text-align:center;" | [153]
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| class="sortable fn" | Dave Moody
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1978
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| class="note" | Grammy nominated, Dove Award winning artist, producer, songwriter and filmmaker
| style="text-align:center;" | [154]
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| class="sortable fn" | Michael Moore
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1970 c.
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| class="note" | Academy Award-winning (2002) film director, author, social commentator, and comedian
| style="text-align:center;" | [155]
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| class="sortable fn" | Jim E. Mora
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1950
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| class="note" | Sport radio commentator and analyst. Former head coach of the Baltimore Stars, New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts
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| class="sortable fn" | Bill Morrison
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1975 c.
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| class="note" | Cartoon illustrator; art director of Bongo Comics; creator of the mural A Century of Values celebrating the BSA's centennial
| style="text-align:center;" | [156]
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| class="sortable fn" | Merrill Moses
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1990 c.
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| class="note" | Water polo player in the 2008 Summer Olympics who won silver
| style="text-align:center;" | [157]
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| class="sortable fn" | Richard Mott
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1997 c.
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| class="note" | mergers and acquisitions executive
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| class="sortable fn" | John Murtha †
| style="text-align:center;" class="sortable" | 1948 c.
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| class="note" | Representative from Pennsylvania (1973–2010); Korean War-era drill instructor and later colonel of the Marine Corps; decorated war veteran of the Vietnam War
| style="text-align:center;" | [7]
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Representative from Illinois (1963–1969; White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975); Secretary of Defense (1975–1977, 2001–2006); Ambassador to NATO (1973–1974)
President of Boston University (1971–1996); Chancellor of Boston University (1996–2003); President Emeritus of Boston University (2003–2012); candidate for governor of Massachusetts (1990)
Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, having first gone representing the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout; later helped develop the principle of wind chill
Assistant secretary for Civil Works for the Army; secretary for industrial relations for California; representative from California (1971–1975); member of the California state assembly; professor at Caltech and Stanford University
Army first lieutenant; first commissioned officer in the U.S. armed forces to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq, saying that he believed the Iraq War to be illegal
These persons, while notable in themselves, are sometimes incorrectly listed as having earned the award:
Henry "Hank" Aaron; Retired baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Athlete (baseball). He is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award. He is often thought to be an Eagle Scout because of an advertisement he did for the BSA.[228]
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